I still have more to say about how to be more sustainable. I mean why not?!

Why using coffee caps?

I know they are totally up to date and George Clooney is so hot in the Nespresso Ad but did you ever think about how much waste you are producing by using these capsules? I am sure you don’t. And now these capsules also come for hot chocolate and tea. More than 5000 tons of waste are produced by coffee caps just in Germany every year. The ratio considering the content of the cap and the waste is absolutely inefficient. Worldwide Nespresso sells more than 8 billions of coffee capsules (do the maths). And recycling these capsules is actually a nightmare since they contain aluminum.

I am not using them at all for a very loong time (and have actually never really used them to be honest) and I can only hope that you will stop using them now.

The Organisation Clean Coffee Project is trying to find a solution for the coffee caps problem, you should have a look.

Palm oil – there are ways to avoid it

Have you ever looked deeper into the palm oil issue? Well palmoil is in a lot of food and products as ingredient, even in those products where you would not think of finding it (Nutella, gummy bears, chips, cookies, butter and cosmetic). A cheap resource, which is widely used in the industry (the cheapest vegetable oil worldwide to be precise). But here is the catch – for the production of palm oil acres of rainforest are being destroyed and cleared in Malaysia and Indonesia. A lot of products are not labelled properly (some state “vegetable oil, which means palm oil and canola oil). Why is that so?

Half of the palm oil are saturated fatty acids (causing high cholesterol and heart conditions, fatteners). Palm oil also contains the so called fatty acid esters which cause cancer (that is a fact). In particular refined palm oil contains a high concentration of pollutants (you can also find them in dairy foods for babies, great way to build up an immune system I suppose). The German Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung (BfR) warns regarding the consumption of palm oil and respective pollutants.

You decide if you want to consume palmoil or not. It is not always bad for your body if produced the right way but there are also alternatives, which are also mostly more sustainable.